Peck v. Hoff’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 371 · 1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2023 · most notably in Re Jessie McDonald (1989), North Star International v. Arizona Corp. Commission (1983)
22 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Meachum v. Fano · Moody v. Daggett · Montanye v. Haymes · Wood v. Strickland
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Peter Rickmyer (also known as Peter Stephenson) may not file any new cases in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota unless: (i) an attorney authorized to practice law in Minnesota and admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota has signed the Complaint; and (ii) the Chief Judge of the United States District for the District of Minnesota has approved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rickmyer v. Browne
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.